Evil Plans: Having Fun on the Road to World Domination by Hugh MacLeod

“It has never been easier to make a great living doing what you love. But to make it happen, first you need an EVIL PLAN. Everybody needs to get away from lousy bosses, from boring, dead-end jobs that they hate, and ACTUALLY start doing something they love, something that matters. Life is short.” -Hugh MacLeod

Hugh MacLeod, the bestselling author of Ignore Everybody, is also a cartoonist and professional blogger known for his ideas about how Web 2.0 affects marketing. After a decade of working as an advertising copywriter, MacLeod started blogging at gapingvoid.com in 2001, publishing cartoons that he drew on the back of business cards in his spare time.

Ed Dale, an Internet marketing guru, said about Evil Plans, “This Book Could Beat Out “Do The Work” for my book of the year. It’s that good.”

One customer reviewer summarized the book like this:

Q: Why do you do what you do?
A: To make money so that I can do the things I really want to do

Q: Why not just do the thing you really want to do?
A: Umm… err.. gasp… cough I can’t afford to / I’m not good enough / I don’t know how / My friends will think I am an idiot

Q: What would it take to make it so you could do that which you love, and that which you are uniquely able to do?
A: (silence)

That’s where your Evil Plan begins.

Buy this book. Then keep reading it once a week on the journey to doing what you love.

Anyone who received a gadget this year has felt the need to purchase add-ons, customizations, or accessories for whatever Santa brought them this year.  It may be an extra SD card for your ereader or a Flash card for your camera.  It might be a car charger for your new mobile phone, a case for your Kindle, or a cover for your Nook.  Whatever your need, there are a few sites that can help you find what you need to customize your new gear.

eAccessories – electronic accessories for your mobile devices from ereaders to mobile phones to tablet PCs.  eAccessories specializes in eReader accessories for the Alex, BeBook, Kindle, Kobo, Nook, and Pandigital Novel.  They also have information about where to find Apple iPad and Samsung Galaxy Tab accessories including cases, covers, screens, and chargers.

Read Pads – focusing on ereader news and hardware, here you’ll find information on Apple iPads, Kindles, Kobos, Pandigital Novels, Nooks, Samsung Galaxy Tabs, and Sony Readers.

eCovers – specializing specifically on cases and covers for ereaders, this web site covers ereader cases and covers for the Kindle, Nook, Sony Reader, Alex, Kobo, and Pandigital Novel.

Nook Share – covering Barnes & Noble’s Nook and information about where to find Nook covers, cases, and accessories – as well as up to date news and information about new models and features.

Read Pads has an article about a school district in Florida that has decided to purchase Amazon Kindle’s for all of their students in order to save on textbook costs. The Ledger reports that the school is happy to have made the switch to digital editions of books.

One bad reading habit – skipping over big words – can no longer be justified by excuses like, “I didn’t have a dictionary,” because the Kindle has a built-in dictionary, which displays definitions for highlighted words. “It helps with reading comprehension,” said senior Bennie Niles, 17.

Another feature he is excited about is the text-to-speech capability. Press a button, and a well-inflected computer voice says the word aloud.

And learning curve? For students who do not know a world without mobile computing, no big deal. “It’s just like texting,” said senior Gabrielle Adams, 17, about inputting notes. “And everybody knows how to text,” Niles said.  Read the full article here.